Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hardest steeplechase in the world, the Grand National is 4.½ miles, twice around a course laid out over dreary, treeless flats near Liverpool, over 30 jumps, huge hedges & ditches wide as little rivers. Only the 300 yards in front of the grandstand are clearly visible to most spectators. Things most of the crowd missed seeing last week were Castle Irwell's blunder at the Canal Turn; Royal Ransom's jockey being unseated at Valentine's Brook; 21 other mishaps that cut the field, smaller than usual, to six horses at the finish...
...Friedrich Wilhelm, chatted "for hours," chiefly about boxing, Prince Wilhelm's hobby. Suddenly the Prince jumped up. He rolled up his sleeves to show his muscles, then pointed to his solar plexus. "Punch me there," cried he. Fisticuffer Hamas punched. Prince Wilhelm smiled, sat down. "It was my hardest punch, too," said Fisticuffer Hamas, "and right in the belly...
...York, stocky, tireless Gregory Mangin won the U. S. Indoor Championship for the third time, 8-6, 7-5, 2-6, 0-6, 6-2, against Berkeley Bell. Then, apparently unwearied by one of the hardest finals in the history of the tournament, Mangin & Bell paired to beat Sidney Wood Jr. & Eugene McCauliff for the doubles title...
With "Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!" as his constantly shouted motto, Coach Dick Harlow yesterday drove 110 Varsity football candidates, the largest turnout in history, through the hardest opening day practice Harvard has ever seen...
...raided the lottery office, destroyed, among other things, complete samples of every kind of lottery ticket sold at that time in the U. S. and England. Because he is a devoted antiquarian, and avid student of Americana, this act of destruction must have been one of life's hardest tasks for John Nields. He left a lucrative law practice when President Hoover raised him to the Federal bench in 1930. But despite his politics and heritage, neither side of the Weirton case doubted for a moment that Judge Nields would hand down a strictly impartial decision. The trial closed...